Comments on: 20 Years Of Macintosh http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356 See what large letters I use as I write to you in my own hand. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:26:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Theognome http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-35 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-35 My first computer was a vic 20. How's that for a memory jog? Theognome My first computer was a vic 20. How’s that for a memory jog?

Theognome

]]> by: Tim Berglund http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-36 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-36 As was mine! I learned BASIC on it, my first language. Then came my Dad's Victor, then a Commodore 128, then an Amiga 500. Never one for the computing mainstream, was I? As was mine! I learned BASIC on it, my first language. Then came my Dad’s Victor, then a Commodore 128, then an Amiga 500. Never one for the computing mainstream, was I?

]]> by: Adeodatus http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-37 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-37 First computer: Apple II+, with the 64k expansion card. Then in college: Mac 512. Oh, how I longed for one of those slic 2meg external drives! But it was cool enough to zip around using a single-button mouse and icons. The mouse I use now has 5 buttons. You think 15 years from now it'll have 25? First computer: Apple II+, with the 64k expansion card. Then in college: Mac 512. Oh, how I longed for one of those slic 2meg external drives! But it was cool enough to zip around using a single-button mouse and icons. The mouse I use now has 5 buttons. You think 15 years from now it’ll have 25?

]]> by: Tim Berglund http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-38 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-38 Just <a href="http://www.byte.com/art/9704/img/047wnc1.htm">maybe</a>. I remember a review in BYTE of a very-multi-button mouse--in the neighborhood of 25 buttons or so--back in the day when mice were still novelties on PCs. Tellingly, it didn't go far. I'm still holding out for that four-blade razor, though. Just maybe.

I remember a review in BYTE of a very-multi-button mouse–in the neighborhood of 25 buttons or so–back in the day when mice were still novelties on PCs. Tellingly, it didn’t go far.

I’m still holding out for that four-blade razor, though.

]]> by: Theognome http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-39 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-39 Yeah, I learned basic on that ol' vic, Too. I got me a Commodore 128 when I first joined the Navy and used it during my first tech schools, but sold it when I went to my first ship. I recall the game Bard's Tale was quite fun on it, as well as another game (I can't recall the name of it) that was a strategy game where you had to unite medieval brittain through placing armies and jousting and such. I didn't have another computer for many years, which was a 386. Theognome Yeah, I learned basic on that ol’ vic, Too. I got me a Commodore 128 when I first joined the Navy and used it during my first tech schools, but sold it when I went to my first ship. I recall the game Bard’s Tale was quite fun on it, as well as another game (I can’t recall the name of it) that was a strategy game where you had to unite medieval brittain through placing armies and jousting and such. I didn’t have another computer for many years, which was a 386.

Theognome

]]> by: Tim Berglund http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-40 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-40 Oooooh, Bard's Tale! I need to download that sucker for my C64 emulator <i>now</i>. The boy must...play...Bard's...Tale... I'm gonna hit myself in the forehead pretty hard when I think of the name of the game you're talking about. I always played it at a friend's house in his Amiga 1000, if it's the same game. There was probably a C64 version of the same, but the name isn't happening here. Oooooh, Bard’s Tale! I need to download that sucker for my C64 emulator now. The boy must…play…Bard’s…Tale…

I’m gonna hit myself in the forehead pretty hard when I think of the name of the game you’re talking about. I always played it at a friend’s house in his Amiga 1000, if it’s the same game. There was probably a C64 version of the same, but the name isn’t happening here.

]]> by: Carmon Friedrich http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-41 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-41 Yes! Buy a Mac! My hubby develops software on Macs, and we want Apple to stay in business ;-). No, she was not wearing an iPod :-)...my husband showed me the commercial and had to point out to unobservant little me what the difference was. In 1986, he was working for Apple and we went to their 10th anniversary party, decked out in formal duds. It was at the Santa Clara Convention Center, and the entire place was decorated like the Land of Oz. Different rooms had food from different countries. Huey Lewis and the News was the entertainment (this was when "Back to the Future" was a big deal), as well as Ella Fitzgerald. How the mighty have fallen. But they still make great stuff. My husband bought me an iBook for our anniversary (which I get in lots of trouble with) and he gave me his iPod when he saw me eyeing it longingly after he brought it home. I'm spoiled. Yes! Buy a Mac! My hubby develops software on Macs, and we want Apple to stay in business ;-) .

No, she was not wearing an iPod :-) …my husband showed me the commercial and had to point out to unobservant little me what the difference was. In 1986, he was working for Apple and we went to their 10th anniversary party, decked out in formal duds. It was at the Santa Clara Convention Center, and the entire place was decorated like the Land of Oz. Different rooms had food from different countries. Huey Lewis and the News was the entertainment (this was when “Back to the Future” was a big deal), as well as Ella Fitzgerald.

How the mighty have fallen. But they still make great stuff. My husband bought me an iBook for our anniversary (which I get in lots of trouble with) and he gave me his iPod when he saw me eyeing it longingly after he brought it home. I’m spoiled.

]]> by: Tim Berglund http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-42 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-42 Carmon: What kind of software does your husband write? Software guys are always appreciated around here! Carmon:

What kind of software does your husband write? Software guys are always appreciated around here!

]]> by: Carmon Friedrich http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-43 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/356#comment-43 Tim, not to brag or anything, but he writes the kind that nobody else can write and untangles the very hardest software problems. He is contracting for Intuit, doing the QuickBooks software for the Mac. He is one of the lead programmers on the project and also did last year's update. They called that project Space Cowboys (my hubby picked the name) because it was a bunch of "old-school engineers whose grasp of outdated technology makes them the only ones able to rebuild the primitive, outdated software that hopes to revive Mac accounting...the true story of 'the ripe stuff.' All this with NO college degree! Gasp! He and Theo are good examples of self-taught, genius, culturemaking, patriarchal, goodnatured, adored-by-their-wives studmuffins (I guess that's who Prairie Muffins marry). 'Nuff said ;-). Tim, not to brag or anything, but he writes the kind that nobody else can write and untangles the very hardest software problems.

He is contracting for Intuit, doing the QuickBooks software for the Mac. He is one of the lead programmers on the project and also did last year’s update. They called that project Space Cowboys (my hubby picked the name) because it was a bunch of “old-school engineers whose grasp of outdated technology makes them the only ones able to rebuild the primitive, outdated software that hopes to revive Mac accounting…the true story of ‘the ripe stuff.’

All this with NO college degree! Gasp! He and Theo are good examples of self-taught, genius, culturemaking, patriarchal, goodnatured, adored-by-their-wives studmuffins (I guess that’s who Prairie Muffins marry).

‘Nuff said ;-) .

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